by Mark Hamilton | Nov 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
The retreat from regret, the aching sorrow that crushes a spirit and snuffs out the first flicker of hope and goodness, begins with repentance. Repentance allows us to cast away shame by acknowledging it and refusing to give it control over our lives, a control...
by Mark Hamilton | Nov 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
With this post, we reach a point 1/3 of the way through the Psalter. And a lovely point it is. Psalm 50 raises a question previously unasked in the Psalter, at least in precisely this way: what does God want from human beings? If we remember that ancient people saw...